Disinfectant mixture



and then '.inti:mately mixed together.

UNrT D STATES PATENT OFFICEQ EDGARGRANVILLE XANDER, or MANSFIELD, OHIO.

. DISIN FECTANT M IXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,259, dated February 8, 1887.

Application filed August 19, 1886. Serial No. 211,260.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDGAR GRANVILLE XANDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Antiseptic Gompoundsyand I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the invention is to form an antiseptic or disinfectant mixture which may be used in garbage barrels or vaults where the garbage is kept in the houses or on the premises in cities and towns. It may, however, be employed in many other places for the same or an analogous purpose.

I take the following ingredients to make up my compound, namely: charcoal, forty parts; coal-tar, four parts; copperas, one part.

The ingredients are thoroughly com minuted The whole is then dried and ready for use.

Just before opening the receptacle for the introduction of garbage a small portion of the dried mixture should be set on fire in the vault or garbage chamber by the servant.

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This will require no more trouble than the lighting of a match, and it will burn slowly, emitting a smokeor vapor, which will completely neutralize any odors emanating from the garbage-receptacle.

I am aware that caustic soda, sulphate of iron, gum-camphor, and oil of tar have been compounded with pulverized charcoal to form a disinfectant; also, that oak-bark, gypsum, and tobacco have been compounded with charcoal, copper-as, and coal-tar to form a deodorizer; also, that tobacco, tannin,gypsum, permanganate of potassa, and gum-camphor have been compounded with charcoal and copperas,

for the purpose of arresting the decomposition to pro- 

